Quotes About Mortality

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long, and the more you're around them, you kind of accept that.

If I die, I know the news item would be, 'Partner of Ricky Gervais and novelist dies.' That would come first. But I've come to terms with it. As long as they do still add the 'and novelist,' that will be fine.

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.

My mother had never had a day's illness in her life and never thought to have checks. Then, at 78, she discovered she had breast cancer and passed away the next year. But if she'd had a check two years before, they could have done something about it, they could have saved her.

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

What is life except excuse for death, or death except escape from life?' Recall my name with kindness now and then.

We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration

He was at an age when every odd ache or pain brought a little more fear than it had before, when colds lingered and settled on the chest.

The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are.

We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

We all come into the story half way through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

TO HIMSELF EVERYONE IS IMMORTAL; HE MAY KNOW THAT HE IS GOING TO DIE, BUT HE CAN NEVER KNOW THAT HE IS DEAD. —

We're dead anyway, all we get to choose is the exit strategy.

we're hard-core realists—we just pay lip service to death and decay and keep right on feeling immortal anyway.